NELSON THOMAS Autograph Letter Signed Thos Nelson Jr as Gove

Sale 2276 - Lot 82

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"I THINK THE GAME IS NEARLY UP WITH CORNWALLIS" NELSON, THOMAS. Autograph Letter Signed, "Thos Nelson Jr," as Governor of Virginia, to Brigadier General George Weedon, asking for help in provisioning Washington's army then en route to Yorktown. With Franking Signature on address leaf. 1 page, folio, with address leaf mounted to verso; inlaid, small seal hole on address leaf. Richmond [VA], 3 September 1781

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"After congratulating you on the arrival of 28 French ships of the line, six frigates & 3000 troops, permit me to request your assistance for the support of a considerable army that are now on their march from the northward. . . . Disappointment to so large an army would be attended with the most fatal effects. I think the game is nearly up with Cornwallis." Published in Magazine of History, August 1910, pages 125-6. Provenance: Henkels Joshua I. Cohen sale, 12 November 1907, lot 122; collection of Adrian Joline; sold by Mary Benjamin to Allyn Kellogg Ford (separately from the other Weedon letters).